Urgent- Python USB Camera not working

[onenerdyguy]

Originally Posted by WubbaDuck

We spent a bunch of time trying to get the USB camera to work correctly. The result was a very laggy robot. No joke, it was around 1-2 seconds of delay with the camera enabled. Then one of our guys discovered a post in the forum about using mjpg-streamer instead. It was super easy to install and works like a champ! There is also a smart dashboard plugin that allows you to have direct dashboard output. You can find more info here: https://robotpy.github.io/2016/01/14...r-for-roborio/

This is exactly what we found last night, at 11:30 pm. We got the camera working, but lag was horrendous. By dropping the quality, we got the lag down to about half a second, but still not usuable.

I pulled the camera off, and will be working on getting mjpg-streamer setup.

Are you running yours off the RoboRio, or off like a raspberry pi? I do have a spare roboRio we ordered I can practice the setup on, so that when we get to competition I can quickly deploy it.